Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-13
Emil Kiesewetter. Auditor Of State
and Candidate for Reelection.

Hon. Emil Kiesewetter has now been
Auditor Of State nearly four years, and
was re-nominated for the same high
Office by the late Democratic State Con-
vention, receiving practically unani-
nous vote. he Is entitled 70 re-elec-
tion by such aideclsive majority as shall
sufficiently iudorse and attest his able
and honest public services.
He Is native OF Germany, born in
Thuringen, on the 18th OF May, 1s45;
and was brought by his parents to the
United States In 1916, when but,a year
old. He has a German as well as an
English education, and was educated
In the common schools of his adopted
home, which he attended until the be-
ginning Of our great civil war, when
he enlisted as private in Company B,
46th 0. v. l., being then seventeen
years Of age. He was at the front In
the hard-fought battles Of the Mississ-
ippi campaign, and was under fire up
on the fields of Oxford. Corinth, the
taking of Vicksburg, the sanguinary
engagements of Black River and Jack
son, at lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, and on Sherman's march to the
sea. At Resaca he was shot clear
through the left hip, and badly wound
ed. Yet, in the face of these facts and
Of this military record, Foraker and
his minions denounce Mr.. Kiesewe:ter
as rebel and copperhead!
After his return from his military
service, he was connected with the
manufacturing establishment of p.
Hayden q Son, Columbus, Ohio, for
thirteen years. During this time he
was for several yearsa member of the
Columbus City Council, when that body
had high character for purity and
honesty.
His record as Auditor of franklin
county, is one to be proud of-one that
the Taxpayers of the county, without
distinction of party, commend and ap-
plaud. He kept the taxes down to the
lowest practicable limit, refusing to put
upon the duplicate illegal taxes ordered
by profiigate Republican City Coun-
Gil, and by an extravagant Republican
Board of Education, and was sustained
in such refusal by O decision of the
highest court of the State. when IL
passed upon Cincinnati cases of the
same character. In short, he perform
ed his duties 30 satisfactorily and SO in
accord with the wishes of the people of
Franklin county, that they indorsed
him for second term, by double the
magnificent majority he had received
at his first election.
In 1888, before his second term as
Auditor of Franklin county had ex-
pireA he was nominated by the Demo-
cracy of Ohio for Auditor of State, and
was triumphantly elected, his vote
standing among the highest given to
the candidates who were elected with
him. Immediately after assuming the
duties OF this office, he inaugurated re-
forms and Improvements that have
been of great benefit to the people of
the State. His refusal to give warrants
upon the Treasury on improper and
fraudulant accounts or on invalid and
imperfect appropriations, has saved to
the Taxpayers of the State many thou
sands of dollars of the public moneys;
and in these refusals he has been sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court. His
forethought and watchful care have
kept the States paper from going to
protest, when the reckless extrava-
gance ofa Republican Administration
was driving on toward bankruptcy
He regards his Office as a public trust,
and runs it on business principles, and
in the interest of all taxpayers.
AS the chief financial officer of q
great State, he has never been sur
passed by any predecessor. John
Brough, as aeDemocratic a Auditor of
State under the old Constitution, and
William D. Morgan, the first under the
present Constitution and the first
elected by the people, stand out in our
financial history as of first-class ex-
cellence in that Office. Mr.. Kiesewet-
ter's Administration will compare
favorably with that Of either Brough or
Morgan; and greater praise than that
hath no man in public life. He is very
popular throughout the State, and we
predict his triumphant reelection.